I put it in..its not preactivated, but i'll take care of that when i get ot italy. i did go ahead and get all the TIM numbers off the sim and onto my phone......and I added my important numbers to the phone and made sure both phone and sim have the numbers. I am new to the whole gsm thing, but its pretty neat. thanks again. i dunno which part of the airport I will be in when I stop in Roma. hopefully i will be near the TIM area. i will have a little less than two hours of layover time which is enough to find the place, get lost and then get back to my plane to Catania....lol :)

Or you can use this document via fax (free toll number: 800.600119 :)

http://www.tim.it/showfile/8129.pdf

Yes but I suppose she doesn't have a portable fax and a landline to use it here, and public-faxes are a rip-off, you should know it well :( It's easier to go to a TIM shop, I suppose... hoping they will speak some English!

Sure, but the Tim Shop probably uses that PDF too :D

Thanks. I leave for Italy Tuesday night. I could fax that doc before I leave....thanks a bunch. Oh, how will I know that it is registered and how long do you think it will take them to do it once they get it? If I fax it shoudl I stop by a TIM store anyway when I get to Italy just to make sure its registered?

When it's registered it works, so you surely know that it's registered! :D
I keep on thinking that the shop is easier, but if you want you can try to send the fax as well, but you have to be in Italy in order to fax the 800.600119.

oooh okay! iw asnt paying attneiton....i thought that it was a toll free number i could fax to from the us....lol. in that case, i'll just wait and do it when I get there. do you think that filling out that form ahead of time and including that with all my other stuff would aid in registration when I arrive at the store?

Yes, it can aid for sure, if you understand Italian and can compile it, it's surely a good thing! ;)

Okay you guys, I just finished packing and am now dealing with all my paperwork. I am filling out the form for TIM but have a couple questions.

I presume that wherever I see the term "il sottoscritto" I simply print my first and last name. ALso, at the end of the form, I am to put my SIGNATURE because it says "firma del richiedente".

I also presume that I am to check SI' where it mentions the terms of service.

Something I am not clear on though is the top portion. Where it says "nato a", since I was born in Germania, do I put the city AND the country there OR do I just put the country?

Also, it says "Residente in"---do I put the region in which I am staying? I will be staying in Sicilia with a Sicilian family. DO i NEED TO CLARIFY WHICH CITY? I'll be in Siracusa. If so, do I put that where it says "residente in" OR do I put that after the street name where it says "via/piazza".

Aso what does "n." mean? After that there is also "c.a.p."----what does this mean?

Also what does "Recapito telefonico" mean?


Thanks for your help!!!! I leave late this evening.

Edit: I found out what "c.a.p." means but I don't know what my code will be. I will be staying on Via Vittorio Veneto in Siracusa, Sicilia......I know that much, but I will not mee my host family untill I arrive so I have no idea what the c.a.p. is there :(

Your assumptions are all right.

Place of Birth: "Germania" is sufficient.

Residente in: this is where you live most of the year. Therefore, my suggestion is to write "Stati Uniti" and then, just next to it, making it fit in the tight space "Domiciliata in Siracua, Via V. Veneto n. [street number]". This is because, as indicated in the few lines under which you are about to sign, you are "criminally liable for false statements" and it would be wrong to state that you are resident in Italy, since you live in the US.

"n." is the street number (stands for "numero")

"cap" for siracusa is 96100 (http://www.poste.it/online/cercacap/elenco_locvie.php lists all italian postal codes)

"recapito telefonico" is a phone number (you can put the one of the people hosting you).

Ciao!